GRANDPA STAYS QUIET

GRANDPA DECIDES NOT TO RAISE HIS HAND

and ask his question. At Biztown, Grandpa

is already over his head. Privately he invokes

the Peter Principle, wondering where competence

left him behind. His goal now, at 8 am, not

to embarrass his granddaughter, not to make

a scene with his wife. His mouth, unaccustomedly

dry, sends him to the drinking fountain

where he straightens his name tag.

He's just been told to take his

Magnetic Dry Erase Marker, and write,

Skip 4B. He has already made his decision

not to ask what happened to 4A.

Jim Bodeen

5 March 2018